Primary Sources:

Twentienth Century

Read the 1980 Resolution to the General Assembly that recalls and discusses the United Nations’ decision to call 1976-1986 the “Decade for Women” at http://www.unesco.org/human_rights/whb.htm. 

Many organizations offering admittance to men only opened their doors to women in 1984 after Roberts vs. United States Jaycees. This decision prohibited sex discrimination in admission policies.  Read the full decision at http://www2.law.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/foliocgi.exe/historic/query=[group+468+u!2Es!2E+609!3A]^[group+citemenu!3A]^[level+case+citation!3A]^[group+notes!3A]/doc/{@1}/hit_headings/words=4/hits_only?.  

Read Meritor Savings Bank vs. Vinson, the 1986 Supreme Court decision regarding sexual harassment at http://www2.law.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/foliocgi.exe/historic/query=[Group+477+U.S.+57:]([Level+Case+Citation:]|[Group+citemenu:])/doc/{@1}/hit_headings/words=4/hits_only?. 

The Supreme Court affirmed the right of states to deny public funding for abortions and to prohibit public hospitals from performing abortions in 1989. Read the full decision of Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services at http://www2.law.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/foliocgi.exe/historic/query=[group+492+u!2Es!2E+490!3A]^[group+citemenu!3A]^[level+case+citation!3A]^[group+notes!3A]/doc/{@1}/hit_headings/words=4/hits_only?.   

Read the text of a 1990 interview with Geraldine Ferraro, in which she recalls experiences as the first female vice-presidential candidate of a major party at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/interviews/ferraro.html. 

Read a transcript of the 1991 Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings at http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/GenderIssues/SexualHarassment/hill-thomas-testimony.

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